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Irrational Man, by William Barrett

by Hans Meyerhoff

The Partisan Review, Spring 1959, pp. 290-298

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    Winter 1959 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. Four Poems from "Life Studies" by Robert Lowell, pp. 11-16
    2. A House of Theory by Iris Murdoch, pp. 17-31
    3. The Maid's Shoes by Bernard Malamud, pp. 32-44
    4. Psychoanalysis and Literary Culture Today by Alfred Kazin, pp. 45-55
    5. The Conclusion by Delmore Schwartz, p. 56
    6. The Sowing by Virginia Berry, p. 57
    7. Two Types of Existentialist Religion and Ethics by Sidney Hook, pp. 58-63
    8. Notes on Feeling and Ideology by Kathleen Nott, pp. 64-71
    9. Letter from the South by James Baldwin, pp. 72-82
    10. Bridges Over the Kwai by Ian Watt, pp. 83-94
    11. Paris Letter by Jean Bloch-Michel, pp. 95-99
    12. Theater Chronicle by Mary McCarthy, pp. 100-106
    13. The American Establishment by William Phillips, pp. 107-116
    14. Notes on the Problem of Historical Laws by Herbert Marcuse, pp. 117-129
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      Realities and Fictions by Irving Howe, pp. 130-136 - 6 Reviews
      1. The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, and Other Stories by John Cheever
      2. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
      3. The Bell by Iris Murdoch
      4. The Long Dream by Richard Wright
      5. Niki by Tibor Dery
      6. The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
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      Poetry Chronicle by John Hollander, pp. 137-143 - 5 Reviews
      1. A Place to Stand by David Wagoner
      2. The Dark Houses by Donald Hall
      3. A Cage of Spines by May Swenson
      4. 95 Poems~~Ninety-Five Poems by E.E. Cummings
      5. Selected Poems and New by Jose Garcia Villa
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      A World That Never Made Him by Steven Marcus, pp. 144-147 - 1 Review
      1. Child of Our Time by Michel del Castillo
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      Looking Forward in Anger by G.L. Arnold, pp. 148-150 - 1 Review
      1. Conviction by Norman Ian MacKenzie
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      Russian Populism by Joseph Frank, pp. 151-156 - 1 Review
      1. Mikhailovsky and Russian Populism by James H. Billington
    20. Correspondence, pp. 157-161
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    Spring 1959 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Present Estate of Pompeii by Malcolm Lowry, pp. 175-199
    2. Realism and the Contemporary Novel by Raymond Williams, pp. 200-213
    3. The Other Night at Columbia by Diana Trilling, pp. 214-230
    4. The Adventure by Georg Simmel, pp. 231-242
    5. Revenge by Harold Rosenberg, p. 243
    6. Rumors of Real Estate by Richard Howard, p. 243
    7. Poem by Ned O'Gorman, p. 244
    8. The Cut Version by Ruth Stone, p. 245
    9. Petey Passes by Hugh Brooke, p. 246
    10. The Nurse's Tale by Adrienne Rich, p. 247
    11. The Politics of Boris Pasternak: An Exchange by Isaac Deutscher, pp. 248-265
    12. Freedom and the Ashcan of History by Irving Howe, pp. 266-275
    13. Finding a Poem by W.D. Snodgrass, pp. 276-283
    14. London Letter by A. Alvarez, pp. 284-289
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      On Existence and Enlightenment by Hans Meyerhoff, pp. 290-298 - 1 Review
      1. Irrational Man by William Barrett
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      A Fantastic Voyage by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 299-302 - 1 Review
      1. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
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      Fitzgerald at the End by Midge Decter, pp. 303-311 - 1 Review
      1. Beloved Infidel by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank
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      The Seriousness of Robert Penn Warren by Alfred Kazin, pp. 312-315 - 1 Review
      1. Selected Essays by Robert Penn Warren
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      The Historical Imagination by Richard Hofstadter, pp. 316-319 - 1 Review
      1. The Pragmatic Revolt in American History by Cushing Strout
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      Poetry Chronicle by Marius Bewley, pp. 320-334 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis
      2. The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, and Other Poems by James Merrill
      3. The Night of the Hammer by Ned O'Gorman
      4. Selected Poems, 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
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      Tom Brown in Quod by Steven Marcus, pp. 335-347 - 1 Review
      1. Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
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    Summer 1959 Issue = 25 Articles
    1. Everything Under the Sun by James Purdy, pp. 363-370
    2. Norman Mailer by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 371-391
    3. Love and Death in Johntown, Tenn. by Robert Penn Warren, pp. 392-419
    4. Mass Society and Post-Modern Fiction by Irving Howe, pp. 420-436
    5. Poems by Walter Stone, p. 437
    6. "They Dream Only of America" by John Ashbery, p. 438
    7. Moonset, Gloucester, December 1, 1957, 1:58 AM by Charles Olson, p. 439
    8. March Song; Hymn by A.R. Ammons, pp. 439-440
    9. Fisherman by Paul Blackburn, p. 441
    10. The Understudies by Ruth Stone, p. 442
    11. Under and Above Ground Conversations by John Fairfax, p. 442
    12. From the Archives at Mari by Stanley Read, pp. 443-444
    13. A Speech on Robert Frost by Lionel Trilling, pp. 445-452
    14. The Gift by Delmore Schwartz, pp. 453-460
    15. London Letter by A. Alvarez, pp. 461-466
    16. Poetic Naturalism by Kingsley Widmer, pp. 467-472
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      The Battle of Lowell by F.W. Dupee, pp. 473-475 - 1 Review
      1. Life Studies by Robert Lowell
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      An Academy of Risk by Mary McCarthy, pp. 476-479 - 1 Review
      1. The Tradition of the New by Harold Rosenberg
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      Kitsch Sociology by Lewis Coser, pp. 480-483 - 1 Review
      1. The Status Seekers by Vance Packard
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      A Metropolitan Girlhood by John Wain, pp. 484-488 - 1 Review
      1. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
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      Logicians and Speculators by Stuart Hampshire, pp. 489-492 - 1 Review
      1. Religion, Politics, and the Higher Learning by Morton Gabriel White
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      An Hypothetical Tale by Harold Rosenberg, pp. 493-498 - 1 Review
      1. The Empire City by Paul Goodman
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      Camus as Dramatist by Henry Popkin, pp. 499-502 - 1 Review
      1. Caligula and Three Other Plays by Albert Camus
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      Poetry Chronicle by John Hollander, pp. 503-509 - 3 Reviews
      1. Heart's Needle by W.D. Snodgrass
      2. The Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn
      3. Of the Festivity by William Dickey
    25. Correspondence, pp. 510-513
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    Fall 1959 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Scenes from the Deer Park by Norman Mailer, pp. 527-534
    2. The Pretender by Lionel Abel, pp. 535-551
    3. Poems by Donald Hall, p. 552
    4. Dead Drunk by Alan Ansen, p. 553
    5. In the Dark by David Ferry, p. 554
    6. The Bolt by Allen Grossman, p. 555
    7. To My Wife; Three Epitaphs; Three Women by J.V. Cunningham, pp. 556-557
    8. I Want, I Want by Sylvia Plath, p. 558
    9. Bread and Onions by Adrienne Rich, p. 559
    10. Highbrows and the Theater Today by Louis Kronenberger, pp. 560-574
    11. O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and New England Irish-Catholicism by John Henry Raleigh, pp. 575-592
    12. Notes on a Suburban Theater by Robert Brustein, pp. 593-605
    13. Anti-Establishment Drama by A. Alvarez, pp. 606-612
    14. Love, Love, Love by Gore Vidal, pp. 613-623
    15. The Achievement of Bertolt Brecht by Harold Clurman, pp. 624-630
    16. New Playwrights by Angus Wilson, pp. 631-636
    17. Paris Letter by Jean Bloch-Michel, pp. 637-642
    18. Rome Letter by Nicola Chiaromonte, pp. 643-649
    19. Poetry Chronicle by Marius Bewley, pp. 650-663
    20. Correspondence, pp. 664-670
    21. Index to Volume XXVI, p. 671
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